We were a tad nervous after seeing those set photos of Johnny Depp looking Michael Jackson-esque on the set of Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, but the first official photo from the film makes Depp look much more like Barnabas Collins.

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The picture, which is clearly intended to reassure the purists, appears over at Entertainment Weekly. EW quotes Burton as saying:

I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series. For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principal photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling.

Click over to EW for the full, higher res picture, plus a primer on who all these people are. [EW]